Ukraine’s business police, known as the Bureau of Economic Security, searched and confiscated products from e-cigarette sellers in 12 regions, including Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Zakarpattia, Pavlo Buzdyhan, the bureau’s deputy director, told the Kyiv Independent.


I’m not sure Ukrainian authorities know what money laundering is if they think a commodity business could be doing money laundering.
I don’t think you know how nicotine/tobacco products are used for money laundering. Just Google it.
You seem hell bent on trying to prove these are pointless raids. Maybe they are, but your arguments are just bad.
Watch “Ozark” if you have access to netflix or can yo-ho-ho it, its an excellent FICTIONAL series that provides a lot of NON-FICTION information about money laundering.